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Comment Re:UI != OS (Score 1) 374

by jones_supa (#49814551) Attached to: Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th

I suspect that as well.

Apart from some tweaks here and there, we're still mostly dealing with the NT6 core (even when the kernel version was bumped to 10).

Pretty much all changes have been on the shell, and the Modern app engine has been introduced.

Submission + - Apple's Patent Makes Keyboard Act As Touchpad

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: Apple has been granted a patent (U.S. 9,041,652) describing a dual-purpose keyboard that sports touch sensors overlaid atop mechanical keys depressible to two more levels, affording users both multitouch gesture control and conventional keystroke entry without having to remove their hands from the device. With touch sensitive key surfaces, the proposed keyboard can detect finger gestures like taps and swipes in much the same way as current touchpads. Importantly, input from each of the user's hands is processed individually, meaning one hand can enter text data via key depression, while the other manages cursor control through touch events, or vice versa. Further, the system allows users to simultaneously type and move an onscreen cursor or perform touch gestures. It's unclear whether the fusion keyboard concept will make its way into a shipping product.

Submission + - MinGW and MSVCRT Conflict Causes Floating-Point Value Corruption (diusrex.com)

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: If you are working on a C++ program where you need very accurate floating point numbers, you might have decided to use long double data type for the extra precision. After a few calculations, you happen to print your number. To your shock, instead of the number being 123.456789, it is printed out as -6.518427 × 10^264 (or 2.745563 depending on your computer). This is actually a bug in some versions of MinGW g++ 4.8.1 (MinGW is a port of GNU programming tools for Windows). Microsoft's C++ runtime library reserves 80 bits for double and long double. When MinGW uses the Microsoft DLL to print out the value, the number is interpreted as using only 64 bits. This discrepancy causes garbage results to be outputted.

Submission + - Android M to Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: USB Type-C connection is showing up in more and more devices, and Google is rolling support for the interface in its Android M operating system. The most significant additions relate to the USB Power Delivery spec. Charging will now work in both directions. That effectively means that Type-C devices can be used as external batteries for other devices. Android M is also finally introducing a feature that musicmakers have been long asking for: MIDI support. This builds on some of the audio features Google introduced in Android 5, including reduction in latency, multichannel audio stream mixing, and support for USB microphones, amplifiers, speakers, and other accessories. As others have written, music and media creation apps are much more prevalent in iOS than they are in Android, and Google hopes turning that around.

Submission + - Poll suggestion: Do you complete your hobby projects?

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: - What I begin, that I finish
— I have quite nice success rate
— I complete something every now and then
— I do have a couple of victories under my belt
— I rarely complete anything, but am always working on something
— My goal is not to properly complete things but just to have fun
— I am mostly just a consumer

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